This is not likely.
We’d welcome him to the RCC
Well, there you have it.
All roads lead to Rome ...
Catholic Bump!
The Holy Father has many cats in his gardens. I wonder if any joined the conversation? :)
Somehow I doubt this. For the Telegraph, anything having to do with the Pope or the Catholic Church is bad, bad, bad. This is just another way to bash Bush.
I already consider GWB our first Catholic president, I mean if Bill could be the first black president then why not.
I’d be more inclined to think he’s receiving historical guidance from the Pope regarding Iran and the Middle East. He’s probably asking for and opinion on what to do about Iran’s nuclear program. That’s what I would be doing if I had an audience with the Pope and I was the most powerful secular figure in the west.
” the president may follow in Tony Blair’s footsteps and convert to Catholicism.”
That’s actually really funny!!
I needed some humor at the end of the week.
To see W do that, would be about as likely as him leaving Laura for Richard Simmons.
Why is the Telegraph afraid to tell us the source of the “rumor”???????? (fax from Vatican)
What would be funny would be if he converted to the Democratic party.
It’s certainly possible, but this article gives no particular reason in support of the idea.
Bush and Blair are two very different kettles of fish. Blair’s conversion was rumored for years. And his wife was already a Catholic. But, strangely, Blair supports abortion and homosexual activism, most unusual in a convert to the Church, since as the saying goes, converts are usually more Catholic than the Pope. Blair is apparently a cafeteria Catholic, and what his reasons were for converting are hard to say.
Bush is genuinely pro-life. I think it’s fair to say that he seems to have the Evangelical spirit, as well, and that his conversion experience was a turning from his drinking problem, among other things. The question I’ve always had with that is how you can be an Evangelical and square that with the very liberal doings of today’s Methodist church. You would need an unusual pastor and an unusual congregation, and I think such are becoming increasingly rarer in Methodist circles.
So, I don’t think the comparison to Blair makes much sense. Blair was Bush’s uncomfortable partner in the Iraq war, but otherwise was always more at home with his old friend Bill Clinton. Bush I think is, or tries to be, a real Christian of the old school.
Reading the headline I began to wonder how hard a time Bush was going to have since his powers of persuasion have fallen to an all-time low but then I realized it was Bush himself who was still in a state of self-adjustment and not the infallible one...
Thanks for the post, camerakid400!
At least the Telegraph isn’t saying that President Bush wants to be Pope.
Are they blaming him for the crusades yet?
Did they compare scars or something?
Hard to believe journalists wasted their time and money paying for an education.
Bush converting to Roman Catholicism is about as likely as the Pope becoming a Methodist.
Bush has been a great President.
I’d welcome him into my church if he so decides that his faith compels it.
Unlikely, but I’ve always thought that President Bush acted more ‘Catholic’ than many Catholics I know.